Sample report · fictional example
Álvaro, 34 · Madrid · Hinge
One fictional example, chosen to show the shape of a report — not the only kind of person nelyo works with. Your city, your app and your goal change what the diagnosis looks like.
Nine months on the app with a six-week break; three to five matches a month, one or two conversations that last, no dates in six weeks. What follows is the whole report for that profile, in full — not an excerpt of one.
Álvaro is invented, so there are no screenshots to show you. A real report opens on your own six photographs and moves them while you watch; here every frame carries the description instead.
Your diagnosis
- Your 1st photo — Formal
- Your 2nd photo — Eyes obscured
- Your 3rd photo — 5 people — you have to be found
- Your 4th photo — Eyes obscured
- Your 5th photo — Doing something
- Your 6th photo — Face reads clearly
The short answer
Low emotional accessibility in the first half of the profile, combined with prompts that are too broad to create specific conversation openings.
How sure nelyo is
What these two words mean
The first is about the reading: how well what nelyo could actually see hangs together as one explanation. The second is about the world, and it is nearly always the lower of the two — nelyo can read your profile, but it cannot see how often the app shows it, to whom, or who else is nearby. A confident reading of a profile is still a hypothesis about results, which is why there is a test at the end.
Start with this
Move one photo to the front — Open the app, drag the close-up to position one, and change nothing else tonight. It takes about two minutes, and it is the single change with the most behind it.
What you said you were trying to do
You said you were looking for a committed relationship, and that you are open to dating gradually while you find it.
What nelyo sees
Your profile, in the order somebody meets it
- One clear social or activity photo with your eyes and expression visible5
There are no screenshots on this example. On your own report these are your photographs, and they move when you switch between the two orders.
Tap any photograph to see what nelyo read from it. Switch to nelyo's order and they move. Nothing here is scored — what the lens shows is where the evidence for the diagnosis sits.
What the set does as a whole
A composed profile that keeps its distance for the first four photos, then warms up after most people have stopped scrolling.
- Warmth only appears in positions 5–6.
- Visual distance — sunglasses, full-body framing — repeats in positions 2–4.
- Travel, restaurants, conversation and humour are category-level rather than personal hooks.
- Most of your matches begin from your own comments, which suggests the profile offers weaker inbound hooks than your outgoing activity does.
Coming through clearly: that you travel, that you eat well, that you are sociable, and that you take some care over how you present yourself. None of that is in doubt from a few seconds of scrolling.
Under-communicated: what you are like to sit across a table from. The face is small or partly hidden in the opening run, and the written answers name categories — travel, restaurants, conversation — rather than anything a stranger could picture you doing.
What cannot be judged from this yet
Not answerable from the profile
- Tell what kind of conversation you are hoping to have, because nothing on the profile asks for one.
- Tell whether the formality of the opening photo is you or the occasion it was taken at.
And what your own numbers do
- Likes and comments sent88
- Matches484 fewer than likes and comments sentthe narrowing is here
- Conversations past a day22 fewer than matches
- Dates02 fewer than conversations past a day
Over the last 30 days, from what you told us. These are your own estimates, not figures read off the app.
You open the app four or five days a week and send about five considered likes on the days you open it, which is steady. Three to five matches a month follow from that, and one or two of those turn into a conversation lasting more than a day. Nothing has become a date in six weeks. The narrowing happens early — between being seen and being replied to — rather than at the end.
What would confirm it
If the next fortnight produces the same match count on the same outgoing activity, the narrowing is where this report says it is.
Your priorities
Three changes, in the order they are worth making.
Make the first impression approachable
An edit to what is already thereEffort: SmallAbout five minutes, dragging photos in the app.Reorder the photos so the close-up comes first, the one of you cooking second, the mountain photo third and the formal portrait fourth. Nothing is added and nothing is deleted — the warm half of the profile simply stops being the half nobody reaches.
Why nelyo recommends this
What nelyo observed
What nelyo infers
It is the half of the diagnosis about sequence: the approachable photos exist, and they are behind four that are not. A profile is scanned before it is read. Whatever is first is what most people decide on, and right now that is the most formal photo in the set.
How sure nelyo is
Highthat this reading is rightModeratethat acting on it moves your resultsThe principle behind it
The first photo carries more of the impression than any other single element of a profile, so it is the one that has to be legible at a glance.
Where that principle comes from
What it keeps of yours — Every photo you already have. This changes the order they arrive in, not the set.
Replace broad interests with one answerable scene
An edit to what is already thereEffort: SmallOne answer, rewritten once. About ten minutes.Your second answer reads "Try every good restaurant in Madrid." It names a category, and a category invites agreement and then silence. One scene with a decision in it invites a reply, because there is something to disagree with.
Why nelyo recommends this
What nelyo observed
What nelyo infers
It is the half of the diagnosis about the written answers: a reader who has nothing to reply to does not reply. A specific scene hands the reader a question they can ask without inventing one, which is the step most conversations fail at.
How sure nelyo is
Highthat this reading is rightModeratethat acting on it moves your resultsThe principle behind it
An answer that could belong to anyone gives a stranger nothing to hold; one that could only be yours gives them a first line.
Where that principle comes from
What it keeps of yours — The subject you already chose and the register you already write in. This is your answer, made specific — not a new one.
Reduce visual distance
Something new to takeEffort: MediumMedium if a new photo is needed. Low if one you already have shows your eyes and a natural expression.Two of the first four photos are taken in sunglasses, and one of those is full-body at distance. Replace the terrace photo with a clear social or activity photo where your eyes and expression are visible. If you already have one, this is a two-minute change; if you do not, it needs a real occasion rather than a staged one.
Why nelyo recommends this
What nelyo observed
What nelyo infers
It stops the opening run repeating the same distance, which is what makes the profile read as reserved rather than private. Repeated distance early on reads as guardedness whether or not that is what was meant, because there is nothing else in those seconds to read it against.
How sure nelyo is
Moderatethat this reading is rightLowthat acting on it moves your resultsThe principle behind it
A set that varies across settings, distances and framings gives a stranger more independent things to read, and fewer gaps they have to fill themselves.
Where that principle comes from
What it keeps of yours — The rest of the set, including both photos taken outdoors. Only one photo leaves the opening run.
Your profile gets its own answer here — a different sentence, with its own evidence.
Diagnose my profileYour new photo order
The same photographs, in the order they are worth meeting.
What changes, and where everything lands
- One clear social or activity photo with your eyes and expression visible5
There are no screenshots on this example. On your own report these are your photographs, and they move when you switch between the two orders.
The same photographs. Switch between the two orders and watch where each one goes — or play the rebuild and watch it happen one move at a time.
The photograph to take
One clear social or activity photo with your eyes and expression visible
Daylight, no sunglasses, taken by someone else, at the distance you would stand from a person you were talking to. Something you were doing anyway rather than an occasion arranged for the profile.
What it is for: It replaces the second photo in sunglasses, so the opening run stops repeating the same distance.
The principle behind it
How nelyo reads profiles
Your written answers
What the plan proposes for each answer you have written.
What stays and what moves
Why this wording
The subject is right and the sentence is a category. Everyone would like to see the world; what a reader cannot picture is what a trip with you is actually like.
What this keeps of yours — Travel as the subject, and the fact that this is about how you want to live rather than a list of places.
Why this wording
This is the one carrying the most weight, because it is the only answer that invites a shared plan. As written it invites agreement and then silence; with a decision in it, it invites an argument worth having.
What this keeps of yours — Your subject — eating well in your own city — and the fact that you proposed something to do together rather than something to admire.
Why this wording
Three qualities most people would also name. The revision keeps all three and makes each one something you would recognise happening.
What this keeps of yours — All three of the things you named — curiosity, humour, not taking life too seriously — in the same order you put them in.
How it reads front to back
Read front to back, the rebuilt profile opens on your face and an expression a stranger can read, then shows you cooking — something you do, and something to ask about. The third photo puts you outdoors in a real place, and the fourth brings back the formal portrait, which is far easier to read once the profile has established who you are. The fifth slot is the clearer photo that replaces the repeated distance, and the group dinner closes it, where identifying you costs least. The written answers follow the same arc: a way of travelling, a plan for a night out, and three things you would recognise happening. Nothing has been added that is not yours, and the profile now says what you told us you wanted it to say in the first few seconds rather than the last.
Changes outside the profile
How far you are searching
You widened from ten to twenty kilometres. Leave it exactly where it is for the fortnight — widening again mid-test would make the result unreadable, and narrowing it is a separate experiment worth running on its own afterwards.
What this rests on
Paid features
You paid for a month of the app's premium tier. Whether it is on or off matters less than whether it changes during the test: pick one and hold it.
What to keep track of
Keep the count in one place — a note on your phone is enough. The value is in it being the same numbers every day, not in it being elaborate.
What this rests on
What is already working
The parts this report does not propose changing, and why.
What is already working
The warmest photo in the set is genuinely warm
The close-up has clear eye contact and an unforced expression. It is the strongest single image you have, and nothing in this report asks you to replace it.
What this rests on
Read in your screenshots
One photo shows you doing something rather than posing
The photo of you cooking at home is specific, relational and easy to ask a question about. It is the clearest conversational opening on the profile as it stands.
What this rests on
Read in your screenshots
The set has range
Formal, outdoors, social, at home — the profile is not six versions of one photograph. That range is worth keeping; this report only changes the order it arrives in.
What this rests on
Read in your screenshots
You are on an app that rewards what you are good at
A profile built from photos and written answers gives you three places to say something specific. Two of them are currently doing less than they could, which is a fixable problem rather than a structural one.
What this rests on
Read in your screenshots
What you wanted it to say, against what it says
What you said you wanted
You wanted the profile to say that you are looking for something committed, and that you are easy to be around once someone knows you.
What the profile signals
What it signals first is polish and travel. The warmth you described arrives, but it arrives at positions five and six, and the written answers stay at the level of categories rather than saying what you are like.
These point in different directions.
What would close the gap
- Open with the photo where your expression is clearest, so the warmth is the first thing rather than the last.
- Rewrite one answer as a scene a stranger could picture, instead of a category they can only agree with.
What this rests on
What not to lose
Keep these
- The formal portrait, for the range it gives the set. Later in the profile, not gone.
- The photo of you cooking. It is the strongest relational signal you have.
- Your own voice in all three answers — the revisions are edits, not replacements.
Steer clear of
- Turning all three answers into jokes. One specific scene is doing the work here, not a change of register.
- Any synthetic or AI-generated photo. A photo that is not you is a worse problem than distance.
- Becoming provocative for attention. It changes who replies rather than how many.
- Changing app, radius, premium tier, photo order and answers in the same fortnight, or nothing that happens afterwards is readable.
- Writing "better in person". Show the warmer evidence instead — you already have it.
If this reading is wrong
Every reading that would explain the same results, and how you would tell them apart.
Low emotional accessibility in the first half of the profile, combined with prompts that are too broad to create specific conversation openings.
Other readings that would explain the same results
Low exposure on the app, which no reading of a profile can detect.
How would you test this?
Hold the profile exactly as it is for a fortnight and record incoming likes daily. A flat line on stable outgoing activity points here rather than at the profile.
A broad but poorly aligned pool at twenty kilometres.
How would you test this?
Put the radius back to ten kilometres for a fortnight, change nothing else, and compare the share of matches you would actually want to meet.
Restrictive preferences narrowing who ever sees the profile.
How would you test this?
Widen the age range by two years either side for a fortnight and see whether match volume moves at all.
Only four weeks of stable data, over which normal variation looks like a trend.
How would you test this?
Keep the daily count going for a second fortnight before concluding anything from the first.
Irregular activity, which changes how often a profile is surfaced.
How would you test this?
Record which days you opened the app at all, and compare match counts on steady weeks against patchy ones.
A more competitive local market than the profile itself can account for.
How would you test this?
Nothing in the app shows you this directly. The nearest reading is whether the same profile performs differently on a second app over the same fortnight.
Run the test in scene 8 first. If it comes back flat, these are what to try next — one at a time, one fortnight each. Two experiments running together cannot be told apart afterwards.
What this reading rests on
The two photos where you look most approachable sit at positions five and six, behind a formal portrait, a photo in sunglasses, a group shot and a second photo in sunglasses. Someone deciding in a few seconds meets the reserved half of the profile and never reaches the warm half. The written answers do not close that gap, because each one names a category — travel, restaurants, good conversation — that a reader can agree with and then has nothing to say about.
Read in your screenshots
Where this reading stops
- The profile gives consistent evidence, but visibility and local pool cannot be observed.
- The counts behind this are your own estimates over a few weeks, and normal variation at those numbers looks a lot like a trend.
- Nothing here can see what happens inside a conversation, so the six weeks without a date are only partly this report's subject.
Every photograph, one at a time
Open the per-photograph reading
Your 1st photo
Move backto position 4It is the most composed photo in the set and it is doing the wrong job at the front. It shows a range the rest of the profile does not, which is worth keeping — at position four, where a reader already knows what you look like.
Based on how the profile hangs together, not on your results.
What this rests on
Your 2nd photo
Moveto position 3Good light and a real place, but the sunglasses mean this is a second photo that does not let anyone read your face. It works at three, once two photos have already done that.
Read from what was in your screenshots.
What this rests on
Your 3rd photo
Move backto position 6It says you have people around you, which is worth saying. It also asks a stranger to work out which person is you, and that effort is expensive early. Keep it, at the end.
Based on how the profile hangs together, not on your results.
What this rests on
Your 4th photo
ReplaceThis is the one to replace. It repeats the framing and the sunglasses of the photo two slots earlier, so it adds distance without adding information. Leave it in place until you have a real alternative — an empty slot is worse than this photo.
Read from what was in your screenshots.
What this rests on
Your 5th photo
Moveto position 2The most relational photo you have, and the easiest to ask a question about. It belongs second, immediately after the reader has seen your face.
Based on how the profile hangs together, not on your results.
What this rests on
Your 6th photo
Moveto position 1Clear eyes, unforced expression, nothing in the way. This should open the profile. It is currently last, which is the single most expensive thing about the current order.
Read from what was in your screenshots.
What this rests on
Your 14-day test
One change, held still for a fortnight, with four numbers written down each day.
Change
The recommended photo order and the three revised answers, applied together on one day. Replace the terrace photo only if a real alternative already exists.
Hold constant
- Premium status
- Age range and search radius
- Relationship intention and location
- Roughly the same number of outgoing likes and comments per active day
- Your commenting style
- The same app
Run for
A fortnight
Watch
- Whether you opened the app that day
- Outgoing likes and comments sent
- Incoming likes received
- Matches, and how many of them you would actually want to meet
- Conversations that lasted more than a day
- Dates arranged
Worth reading only if
You are active on at least eight of the fourteen days, your outgoing activity stays broadly similar to the fortnight before, you send at least thirty considered likes or comments, and you change no other setting.
How to read the result
- More matches, and more conversations that last more than a day.
- This supports the reading above — the opening order and the answers were the constraint. Keep the new order and leave it alone for another fortnight before changing anything else.
- No change at all.
- This points somewhere the report cannot see: how often you are shown, app fit, or pool size — or the diagnosis was wrong. The radius experiment is the next one to run, and it is cheap.
- Fewer matches, but ones that fit better.
- This is a useful result rather than a failure. A profile that says more clearly what it is filters as well as it attracts, and the number worth watching then is conversations rather than matches.
What to do, and when
Tonight
This week
Over the next fortnight
Every day for a fortnight
A note on your phone is enough. The value is in it being the same numbers every day.
Your app, and who is on it
The app you are on gives three written answers as much space as the photos, which suits a profile whose weakest part right now is what it says rather than what it shows.
Nine months with a six-week break in a city this size means you have seen a good deal of the local pool at twenty kilometres. That is worth holding constant through the test rather than changing, because a pool effect and a profile effect look identical if you move both at once.
The first look, after
The same six seconds a stranger gets — with the profile arranged the way this report proposes.
- Your 6th photo — Face reads clearly
- Your 5th photo — Doing something
- Your 2nd photo — Eyes obscured
- Your 1st photo — Formal
- Held for the photograph to take — One clear social or activity photo with your eyes and expression visible
- Your 3rd photo — 5 people — you have to be found
The same photographs, rearranged. Scene 4 holds the move-by-move version. Nothing here ranks them or marks them out of anything.
The whole thing, put together
Your profile as it would read after the changes above — assembled from the same plan, not a second proposal.
- The close-up1
The photo that says what you look like.
- Cooking at home2
Something you actually do, and something to ask about.
- Your 1st written answer · revised
Keep choosing trips that involve one great meal, one long walk, and no plan for at least half a day.
- The mountain viewpoint3
Outdoors, and a real place — now that the face has landed.
- The formal portrait4
The range: formal, and much easier to read this late.
- Your 2nd written answer · revised
Pick one Madrid neighborhood, find its best no-frills restaurant, and argue over whether dessert counts as sharing.
- The photograph to take — One clear social or activity photo with your eyes and expression visible5
The clearer photo that replaces the repeated distance at position four.
- The group dinner6
People around you, where identifying you costs least.
- Your 3rd written answer · revised
Asking a real question, laughing when the plan goes slightly wrong, and accepting that I will make too much paella.
How this was made
What nelyo read
Six screenshots of your profile — six photos and three written answers — and what you told us about the last nine months on the app.
Everything on the screens was legible, so nothing below rests on a guess about what a word said. The match and conversation counts are your own estimates rather than figures read off the app, and they are treated as estimates throughout.
Outside what screenshots can show
- How often the app shows your profile, or to whom.
- Who else is in your local pool, or how the app ranks anyone in it.
- What happens inside a conversation once it starts.
- Whether the six weeks without a date are unusual for you, or usual.
What this report cannot do
- This report cannot promise matches, conversations, dates or a relationship, and it does not try to.
- Every recommendation here is a hypothesis with a test attached, not an objective truth.
- Nothing in this report is a judgement of your worth, and no part of it scores how attractive you are.
This is what you receive — for your own profile.
Diagnose my profileNo app login. No public posting. No attractiveness score.